Smital Lunawat

“Engineering leader/player-coach who built and validated a preference-based recommendation engine using clustering, including generating test data to evaluate how clusters evolve over time. Has SRE/DevOps experience and has owned production incidents end-to-end (logging-driven RCA and refactoring patterns that failed at large data scale). Emphasizes quality and platform stability via unit, integration, and load testing, and has managed performance via regular 1:1s and PIPs.”

Sean Brennan

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Senior Software Engineer specializing in backend platforms and cloud systems

Oakland, CA28y exp

“Engineer with a track record of taking on messy, high-ambiguity systems that others avoid, including a Python rewrite of Google Search Appliance's settings migrator that achieved 95% test coverage and zero bugs. Has also built internal full-stack planning tools at Capital One using React, Kotlin, and Airflow/DBT data pipelines, and brings specialized insurance analytics experience from catastrophe risk modeling for insurers.”

“Operator-turned-aspiring founder with experience building CI, cloud, and AI businesses at Harness, including P&L ownership and 0-to-1 execution. Exploring an AI-native infrastructure/control-plane thesis focused on moving enterprise workflows from AI assistance to execution, with a strong emphasis on ROI, coordination gaps, and durable moats.”